Charlie+H.-+Current+Events

**Charlie H.- Current Events

Time of Event: 2003-2009 Location: Darfur, Sudan Result: Unclear Website: Wikipedia Date Posted: February 8, 2009**

Ok, so here is the deal. You have the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) taking up arms because they are accusing the government of oppressing black Africans in favor of Arabs. The government has been accused of tampering of evidence by hiding mass graves, and they have arrested and harassed journalist, so they press coverage there is slim to none. Now the United States have called this incident genocide, but the United Nations have said that this is not genocide because it is missing some “genocidal intent”. Even though about 309,000 citizens have been starved, introduced to diseases, raped and mass murdered the United Nations still say that this is not genocide! Now I know that Mrs. Fegan does not want us to put a link to the article, but I have put one at the end of this summary because I am not really good at summarizing things.

Here is the LINK!

I don't think that the U.N. even understands the full situation, if they can honestly say that it is not genocide when 309,000 people are dying. If thats not genocide then what is?! And since they don't consider it to be genocide, then apparently they aren't planning on doing anything! I think the U.N. needs to open up their eyes and realize that this is the truth and this is whats happening now, so that they may actually do something about it instead of living in denial. - Shaun F.

I believe that the United Nations is acting blind. Even if they aren’t calling it “genocide” something still needs to be done. When that many people are dying for reasons that qualify under genocide then it obviously has to be genocide. The United Nations needs to realize this and take action.